a photo a day

To make this two-page spread I used the template and seven pictures below. I began with the template and would click on the square I wanted the picture to go in. Then I would drag the picture with the move tool onto the template. Since I was originally clicked on the box I wanted the picture to end up in, the was placed right above its destination on the layers menu. I then right clicked it in the layers menu and chose "clipping mask." A clipping mask placed the picture into the box so I could move it around freely. Next I held "shift" while I resized the image and placed it just how I wanted in th box. I did this for all the pictures. I changed the date from the template and took off the days of the week because I wanted my pictures in a different order than they were taken in. It was fairly quick and easy once I got the hang of it.

 1.Chef Bridger: 10/26/2010; 5:10 PM; Rexburg; f/4.5; 1/30; Sony A330

 2. Winter Flowers: 10/27/2010; 6:19 PM; Rexburg; f/5.6; 1/125; Sony A330

 3. Candle: 10/28/2010; 7:31 PM; Rexburg; f/7.1; 1/5; Sony A330

 4. Emmett Skunk: 10/30/2010; 5:50 PM; Rexburg; f/5.6; 1/80; Sony A330

 5. Flowers: 10/31/2010; 10:58 PM; Rexburg; f/5; 1/60; Sony A330

 6. Daisy: 11/1/2010; 12:10 PM; Rexburg; f/5.6; 1/1250; Sony A330

7. Halloween Candy: 10/30/2010; 7:53 PM; Rexburg; f/8/ 1/10; Sony A330

For all of the photos above I did simple edits in camera raw. Mostly I added vibrance, saturation, clarity, blacks and fill light. I chose most of the pictures because they reflected something about my day. The candy and costumes are from Halloween. Bridger is obsessed with candles lately. He helped me make cake batter cookies. Basically something from my day is in each of the pictures. It was a fun project (but easy to forget to take a picture. I forgot one day and I ended up setting an alarm the rest of the days to make sure I wouldn't miss a picture).
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